Lawyers in Poland

Beata Mrozowska-Bartkiewicz

DLA Piper Gizinski Kycia sp.k.

Bogusław Kapłon

Based in Poznan, Bogusław is a Partner and Co-Head of the Labour Law and Social Security Practice, specialising in commercial and corporate law. He also has vast experience advising on employment issues and employment restructuring. Boguslaw has advised numerous leading Polish and foreign companies on legal aspects of their operations, including privatisation processes with trade unions. He has also advised on collective bargaining agreements, remuneration systems and other employee benefit schemes (e.g. share option plans). He also represents business organisations before the Constitutional Tribunal and has acted as an attorney ad litem in cases before employment courts.

Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka

Błażej Czwarnok

Błażej Czwarnok is a partner in the Real Estate team of Gide's Warsaw office. He specialises in advising investors and developers in the residential, office, retail, hotel, logistics and elderly care real estate markets, as well as financing institutions, on all real estate transactions and investment processes, including structuring transactions, sales and acquisitions, joint venture projects, sale and leaseback transactions and leases. Błażej recently advised a major developer in Poland on the acquisition of a new office project with the potential to convert it to a residential project, a retail developer on the sale of two retail parks in Poland, a retail group on the restructuring of its portfolio and expansion in Poland, a major European hotel group on concluding new hotel lease agreements in Poland and an investor operating in the healthcare and nursing homes sector on acquisition of new assets in Poland. Błażej graduated from the University of Warsaw, the University of Poitiers and the University of Orleans. He is an advocate admitted to the Warsaw Bar Association since 2011.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Błażej Zagórski

Partner in the Corporate/M&A practice

CMS

Cezary Przygodzki

Cezary Przygodzki is the head of Dentons' Tax team in Poland, where he focuses on international tax planning and M&A structuring. He advises clients on the tax aspects of restructuring and reorganizing their businesses, as well as foreign investors in Poland, particularly with regard to the tax incentives and reliefs offered to investors. In addition, Cezary is available to assist clients with tax-related disputes, litigations, and administrative proceedings. His clients mainly come from the energy, media, technology, and real estate sectors, although he also has experience assisting financial institutions and private equity funds. Cezary has been recognized as the Leader in transactional advisory services in Poland by Rzeczpospolita's Ranking of Tax Advisory Firms 2024. Clients In 2024 Cezary advised such companies as ‣ Accor, leading company in the hotel industry ‣ CPI Property Group and its subsidiaries, a leader in commercial and hotel real estate in Central and Eastern Europe and in Germany ‣ Flextronics International, a global manufacturing partner that provides design, build, and support services for a diverse range of industries ‣ Palmira Capital Partners, a leading investment manager specializing in logistics and industrial property, on acquisition of commercial properties ‣ Skanska, one of the world’s largest development and construction companies ‣ Rolmex, a Polish capital group active in international commodity trading, real estate trading and equity investments. Work Highlights ‣ Accor: advising on comprehensive transfer pricing aspects of the development and implementation of settlement mechanisms for intra-group transactions in the CEE region. ‣ CPI Property Group: advising the client and its subsidiaries CPI FIM SA and Czech Property Investments on a partnership agreement to sell a 49% common equity stake in Vulcanion (now CPI Project Invest and Finance (“CPI PIF”)), to funds managed by Sona Asset Management. The investment is worth €250 million. ‣ Skanska: advising on the legal and tax aspects of Skanska's sale to Eastnine AB (a Swedish real estate company focused on modern and sustainable office and logistics properties) of Building E of the Nowy Rynek complex. The investment is worth €79 million. ‣ Rolmex: advising on the sale of the Indykpol Group – a leader in the Polish turkey meat market – to the LDC Group, one of Europe's largest poultry producers.

Dentons

Cezary Wiśniewski

Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution - Poland

Addleshaw Goddard Wisniewski Dzianachowski Schulz i Wspólnicy sp.k.

Christian Schnell

Christian Schnell is a partner, co-head of the Energy & Natural Resources practice team in Dentons’ Warsaw office. He also practices in the Firm’s Munich office. Christian has more than 25 years of experience in advising on developments, acquisitions, disposals, EPCs, PPAs and heat supply agreements in the renewable energy sector in Poland, Central-Eastern and Southeast Europe. Christian has a varied client base, advising direct investors, renewable energy and infrastructure funds, private equity and private debt, international developers and financial institutions in respect of development, construction and operational projects. Christian has been leading transactions on numerous energy projects and has broad experience of premium support schemes, but also non-subsidy renewable energy projects, mainly onshore wind and ground-mounted solar PV projects. He has a profound knowledge about energy markets, strategic market forecasts and sector integration technologies. Christian has also longstanding experience with offshore project development and advises since many years on heat investments and heat supply contracts.

Dentons

Cyryl Szudra

Manager, Attorney-at-law

Olesinski & Wspolnicy

Dagmara Cisowska

Dagmara Cisowska is a tax advisor and counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Tax team. She leads the Transfer Pricing practice. Dagmara is highly experienced in transfer pricing and has taken part in a number of projects involving intercompany financial arrangements in corporate groups, transfer pricing documentation, benchmarking studies, and requests for advance pricing agreements. Her project experience includes transfer pricing policy creation, verification and implementation in corporate groups, as well as business restructuring. She specializes in representing clients during tax audits, transfer pricing proceedings and disputes, including the Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP). Dagmara is an active member of the Transfer Pricing Forum, an advisory body to the Polish Ministry of Finance, which aims to prepare recommendations, opinions, analyses, conclusions and proposals to simplify and tighten the functioning of the tax system in the field of transfer pricing.

Dentons

Damian Karwala

Counsel in the IP/TMC practice

CMS

Daniel Kaczorowski

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig Nowakowska-Zimoch Wysokinski Sp. k

Daniel Kopania

Daniel Kopania specialises in real estate, construction and infrastructure, advising institutional investors, owners, funders, contractors and professional consultants. Daniel has a wide range of expertise in retail, office, warehouse, residential, mixed-use, energy and industrial plants, as well as PPP and infrastructure projects. He also has unique expertise in negotiating construction contracts.

Clifford Chance, Janicka, Kruzewski, Stosio i wspólnicy spólka komandytowa

Daniel Panek

Senior Manager

CRIDO

Daniel Pękala

Head of the Economic Crime and Criminal Law Protection of Companies Practice in the Criminal Law and Compliance Department at the Kopeć & Zaborowski Law Firm (KKZ). Advocate. Daniel Pękala - In his professional activity, he focuses on substantive criminal law, and in particular economic criminal law and criminal procedure. He has many years of experience in dispute resolution and court and arbitration proceedings. In his professional practice, he mainly defends clients in criminal cases involving white-collar crime. He participates in many multi-threaded and complex cases involving tax carousel frauds, Ponzi schemes, money laundering, fraud, and other property crimes. In addition, he has extensive experience in criminal mismanagement trials. In these trials, he both defended managers and represented companies harmed by their managers’ crimes.

Kopec & Zaborowski

Daniel Radwański

Partner

Schoenherr Halwa Okon Chyb sp.k

Daria Rutecka

Partner

Schoenherr Halwa Okon Chyb sp.k

Dariusz Rosolski

BLSK

Dariusz Stolarek

Dariusz Stolarek is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Tax team. He has led numerous M&A projects involving comprehensive international and domestic transaction tax structuring, tax due diligence and W&I / tax specific risk insurance. His areas of expertise extend to corporate and project finance and business restructuring. He has represented his clients in tax litigations and has assisted in establishing internal tax risk management procedures. Dariusz has broad experience in tax advisory for real estate, financial, renewables, insurance, and IT sectors. Dariusz is a leading tax advisor in the new and rapidly growing Polish tax insurance sector, both in relation to specific tax risk insurance projects and warranty and indemnity insurance accompanying M&A transactions. Dariusz has strong relationships with the major tax insurance players in Poland and Europe.

Dentons

Dariusz Tokarczuk

Dariusz Tokarczuk is a partner in the Warsaw office. He specialises in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, competition and commercial contracts, capital markets and tax law. Dariusz advises on the most complex M&A transactions on the Polish market. He represents leading Polish and foreign investors during mergers and acquisition projects, financial operations and investment processes in Poland, as well as in cross-border multijurisdictional transactions. He provides comprehensive legal and business advice at every stage of the investment process. He has extensive corporate experience in various industry sectors, with a special focus on mining and heavy industries. Dariusz also advises on all aspects of competition law and commercial contracts and supervises the firm’s Tax practice. In recent years, he has advised KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. on various development projects and Qemetica (formerly CIECH S.A.) in obtaining strategic financing. Dariusz graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Wrocław and completed postgraduate studies in management at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, Sciences Po, the École des Ponts ParisTech, MINES ParisTech and the Collège des ingénieurs de Paris. He is a member of the Warsaw Bar.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Dariusz Zdanowicz

Attorney-at-law, MBA

Kacprzak

Dawid Brudzisz

Counsel

Schoenherr Halwa Okon Chyb sp.k

Dawid Van Kędzierski

Dawid Van Kędzierski is Counsel in Gide's Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions team in Warsaw. He advises on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and financial regulation. He has assisted in significant transactions on the mergers & acquisitions market, especially in relation to banks and public companies. He advises private equity and venture capital fund sponsors in buy-side and sell-side mandates as well as fund formation. He has acted on behalf of issuers and financial institutions in connection with public and private offerings of securities, including shares, bonds and subscription warrants. He also advises on financial regulation, including MAR, MiFID, AML/CFT, AIFMD and CRR. Dawid recently represented Kulczyk Investments in its take-private deal for Ciech (later re-branded as Qemetica), and KGHM in its PLN 1 billion issuance of unsecured 7-year bonds. Dawid graduated in law from Warsaw University and in English law from Cambridge ICE University. His PhD thesis on leveraged buyouts and recapitalisations was defended at the University of Łódź.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Dominik Gałkowski

Co-managing partner KKG Legal Attorney-at-law Leader of the Administrative Litigation Practice Leader of the Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development Practice Leader of the Restructuring and Insolvency Practice

KKG Legal

Dominik Hincz

Dominik is a Senior Associate in our Dispute Resolution team in Warsaw.

Bird & Bird Koremba, Dziedzic i Wspólnicy sp.k.